Neighbor: 2008 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix

The inaugural FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix will take place on 28 September 2008 on a street circuit of public roads around the Marina Bay area. The race will be the first held at night in FORMULA 1™ history and is the first street race in Asia.Three-day Corporate Hospitality Suite packages were launched on 28 November 2007,with sale of three-day passes to the public due to start in mid January 2008. Single-day passes will be released for sale just before the Chinese New Year, subject to available inventory.

 

Changes to the designation of corner numbers will mean that the Marina Bay circuit
is officially reduced from 24 to 23 corners for the 2008 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix on 28th September. The change in designation reflects amendments to
Turn 10, at the end of St Andrew’s Road which passes City Hall and The Padang.

“Previously what was Turn 10 and 11 was actually 3 corners close together in a
chicane configuration, created to provide the right geometry and corner speeds,
due to the lack of straight ahead run off in this part of the circuit” says Singapore
GP Director–Technical & Race Operations, Michael McDonough. “As it is created
solely around what is in effect the approach to one corner it was determined, in
association with the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile, that one turn
number (Turn 10) be used with a, b and c identifying the change in geometry
through the turn.”

In addition, there have been further changes to offer additional grandstand seating
to accommodate overwhelming demand. In just five months, over 92% of the
tickets to the 2008 FORMULA 1™ SingTel Singapore Grand Prix have been sold.

With less than 90 days to the race, the demand remains so strong that race
promoter Singapore GP Pte Ltd will be releasing an additional 1600 grandstand
seats on Friday, 4 July 2008.

The Singapore Flyer Premier Grandstand will be converted to a conventional
grandstand. In addition, there will also be a new 1100 seat Connaught Grandstand
on Esplanade Drive (opposite the Esplanade). Three-day passes for these
grandstands are priced at S$698 and offer a great view of the action although they
will not have access to giant screens.

Singapore GP will also be adding an additional 500 seats to the existing Turn 2
Grandstand so that it now links to the Turn 1 Grandstand. The new seats are priced
at S$1388, the same as all grandstands in the Northern Loop.

Due to the high take-up rate of the walkabout tickets, the City Hall Steps,
previously identified as a potential grandstand location, will instead accommodate
viewing platforms for walkabout ticket holders. All these locations are shown on a
new circuit map which will be made available to all ticket holders as well as being
featured on the official website, www.singaporegp.sg

With the new additional grandstand, a total of 84,600 three-day walkabout and
grandstand passes will have been released, plus 13,000 corporate hospitality and
Paddock Club seats. A further 3,000 single-day walkabout passes brings the total
capacity per day to 100,600.

The Stamford, Raffles, Marina and Esplanade Waterfront grandstands are now
sold out.

Turn 3, Bay and the Pit grandstands have only single-seat availability.

However, seats are still available at Turn 1, Turn 2, Padang, Singapore Flyer,
Esplanade Steps Premier and of course the new Connaught Grandstand.

General tickets can be purchased via the official website, www.singaporegp.sg,
ticket sales hotline (+65 6738 6738) or via the OmniTicket counters at various
locations around Singapore

Source: Singapore Grand Prix

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